Winner and a Sparkle Card

Posted by: YNS on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 12:50 pm

**this is our second post today so be sure to check out Chris’s adorable Gardening Ellie card HERE!**

WOW! That about sums up how I feel about all your wonderful comments on my Surprise Giveaway!

Thank you so much for joining in the fun and for spreading the word to all your friends! I will definitely do more surprise giveaways so be sure to check back often for daily inspiration and loads of YNS FUN!

Before I announce the winner I’d like to share a card I made using Shirley Temple Ellie which by the way just happens to be on sale right now! I just adore this sweet stamp and really wanted to make a card for the YNS Make it Sparkle challenge! Many of you know that my little addiction, besides stamping, is bling so I’ve added some yummy glittered skittles to my card as well as some purple shimmer cardstock and some ribbon with glittered edges.

Alrighty, now on with the announcement of the winner of my YNS Surprise Giveaway!!!

Congratulations Brenda!!!! Blog http://infinite-possibilities.blogspot.com/

You’ve won these YNS goodies…Rainy Day Fhiona and some yummy YNS Glittered Skittles!!!

Email me (karen@yournextstamp.com) to claim your prize! YAY!

Happy Stamping!

Is it Spring Yet? Ellie is ready to garden….

Posted by: YNS on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 7:00 am

Hi All!! It is Chris here, sharing a little spring using the Ellie Loves to Garden from Your Next Stamp. I colored the image with copics and sponged the clouds with a scalloped circle and my SU Baja Breeze ink.

I just love the bright and fun colors of the My Mind’s Eye Tickled Pink pad.

The layout uses the Sweet Stop sketch. Isn’t this image just so darling and Springy? I just love her. She reminds me of my dear daughter.

Thank you for stopping by and don’t forget we have a great challenge going on at the

Your Next Stamp Challenge Blog This week’s challenge is Make It Sparkle.

We want to see you use a lot of sparkle on your challenge entries!

You could use rhinestones, Shimmerz, Stickles, Glitter, glittered paper, etc. anything as long as it sparkles.

There are two chances to win so why not give the challenge a try!!! You don’t have to use a YNS image to join us but if you do, we would love to see you use them

I hope you enjoyed my creation and that your day is fun with sunshine!!

~Chris

Happy Spring!

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 7:00 am

Hi all … Jenny here!

Sharing with you my CAS (Clean and Simple) project.

I love CAS – which to me means uncluttered.

I like to showcase the image.

I want it to be the star of my card.

With CAS cards I can achieve that!

And heres how you can too:

First I stamp my image onto white cardstock, I use Gina K pure luxury white when I am making a one layer CAS card because the markers don’t bleed through the back. Makes for a perfectly clean card.

Next, I stamped my sentiment in the bottom corner then used a ruler to make a border around the card.

Then I stamped my image and colored in.

And here is my finished card! So clean and really makes the star of the show “TULIP GARDEN” stand out and be the focal point of the card. And I made this card in less than 10 minutes, so they are really perfect when you need a quick card!

Your Next Stamp rubber stamps are perfect for doing CAS. They are nice, crisp and you can get them in a variety of sizes to make small notecard size cards or large standard size cards.

PS: Dont forget to enter for the SURPRISE GIVEAWAY! You dont wanna miss it!!

Thanks for peeking in and letting me share my project with you today!

Have a great week!!

Blessings,

🙂 🙂 🙂 Jenny

Music Soothes the Soul!

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Good Morning Everyone, Happy Tuesday!!! Crystal here and today I would like to share with you a creation I made with this ADORABLE Your Next Stamp image Ipod Teen Girl. My DD’s birthday is Next Week and I thought this image would work perfect for her. She is turning 12 and wants an itunes card as one of her gifts. So I decided to add one to my card, I made a layout where I could slide in the gift card for her..Hope you enjoy!!

I just love this image, it is sooo fun for the kids!!! YNS also has an ipod teen boy so if you have boys stop by and check out that image :)!!! I used this fun paper from American Crafts Teen girl, You can’t see it all because my image is covering it a bit but it has radios and ipods all over it!!! In the inside I have matching music note paper from this pack of paper!!!

I also wanted to remind you that Your Next Stamp is having a SURPRISE GIVEAWAY it ends the 23rd so you still have some time, come check out the post HERE for a chance to win this FUN CANDY!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope everyone has a GREAT Tuesday!!!

It’s Getting Warmer

Posted by: YNS on Monday, March 21, 2011 at 11:00 am

Oh yes I can say it’s definitely getting warmer I actually have flowers abloom in my yard

they are dwarf dutch Iris!!!

Today I want to share a cardshowcasing one of the new releases

Ellie Loves The Beach:

It seems life couldn’t get much better for Ellie and I can say I can’t blame her!

Thank you for stopping by and don’t forget we have a great challenge going on at the

.Your Next Stamp Challenge Blog, Make It Sparkle.

We want to see you use a lot of sparkle on your challenge entries!

You could use rhinestones, Shimmerz, Stickles, Glitter, anything as long as it sparkles.

There are two chances to win YNS bucks so come on over and give it a go!

I hope you have a bright sunshiny day!

Surprise Giveaway!

Posted by: YNS on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 5:00 am

Hello Friends!!!

Today I just feel like saying THANKS for all your support with a surprise giveaway!!! YIPPEE!!! Things have been really busy here and I know I personally haven’t posted as much as I used to but I just want everyone to know that I am here and I appreciate all of you – thank you for loving YNS stamps and for keeping my dream alive!!!

Recently we introduced some new embellies here at YNS – Glittered Skittles!!! These sparkly embellies are awesome and add the perfect little bit of sparkle to your cards and scrapbook pages! Well with that said let’s give some of those away!

We all LOVE YNS stamps so lets add some to the surprise giveaway as well!!!

How about the super cute Rainy Day Fhiona to celebrate all the snow melting here in Ontario! Bring on the rain!!!

I’ll keep this surprise giveaway for Rainy Day Fhiona and YNS Glittered Skittles open for 4 days so be sure to enter your name by leaving a comment on this post for your chance to win and be sure to tell all your blogger friends!

Contest closes Wednesday March 23rd at midnight EST – good luck!

Happy Stamping Hugs!

A little bit of Music

Posted by: YNS on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:00 am

Happy TGIF everyone. It’s Diana here and I wanted to share a card I created this week with Mini Ellie Loves Music. She is part of our most recent releases. You can grab this lil beauty over at the YNS store while she is on SALE now along with all the mini stamps and YNS embellishments – 10% off until March 31st. Swing by the YNS Store and check out all the sale items we have in addition as well. Also be sure to check out the full size version of this adorable stamp!

I used Mojo Monday 181 for this. I added some cork paper, several dies, buttons, and topped it off with some Sparkle. Speaking of Sparkle, this weeks challenge is all about the Sparkle. We would love it if you could come join us at the YNS Challenge Blog for this weeks challenge and get your Sparkle on.

Thank you for visiting us today, and I hope you all have a happy and safe weekend!

Flower Bouquet 4u

Posted by: YNS on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 7:00 am

Hi everybody! It’s Maureen here and I wanted to share a card I made:

I used Flower Bouquet Fhiona and some REALLY old papers from Heidi Grace. Fhi’s headband and dress were paper pieced and the rest was colored with Copics (yes, even those really thin and tiny bits in the bouquet – just go really slowly and carefully!) and cut out with a Nesties die. The “4u” was cut with Quickutz dies and I did the lattice scoring on the background with my Martha score board.

Just a quick reminder that our new challenge just started – “Make It Sparkle”. We hope you’ll play along with us!

~Maureen =)

YNS Challenge #38 – Make it Sparkle!

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 12:29 pm

Happy Wednesday!!!

It’s time for a new challenge over at the YNS Challenge Blog and your hostess is the super talented DT member Wendy! She has challenged us to Make It Sparkle! YAY! My favorite kind of challenge!!!

Here is Wendy’s fabulous Sparkle card featurung the new March Release stamp Easter Egg Tree…I LOVE this stamp!!!

Be sure to check out all the details over at the YNS Challenge Blog and enter your Sparkly card for your chance to win some YNS bucks!

Happy Stamping!

Hope Your Day is Purr-fect!

Posted by: YNS on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 7:00 am

Hello and happy Monday! Hopefully you’ve all seen the adorable new images that Karen has in the store! This is one of them called Ellie’s Kitty Willow~love her! I paired her with some fab Echo Park Paper Co. Be Mine dp and the February Jen’s Sketch For You To Try. I also decorated the inside, and I computer generated a sentiment that I thought would be fun with this cute little kitty:

I hope you like it and I hope you all have a purr-fect day! Thank you so much for stopping by:)

Kerri

Recipe:

Stamps: Your Next Stamp Ellie’s Kitty Willow

Paper: PTI Raspberry Fizz, True Black, Echo Park Paper Co. Be Mine

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics, PTI Raspberry Fizz

Accessories: Circle, Lacey Circle, and Labels Four Nestabilities, Sewing Machine, Dimensionals, SU Scalloped Border Punch, Really Reasonable Ribbon 1.5 inch Black Gingham, Black with White Stitches, and Black Licorice Baker’s Twine, Button